Hey hunters!
As you may know, we love to experiment with our API and build new community services. We're super excited today to introduce Algolia Places, making it easy for developers to turn any HTML ‹input› into an autocomplete! We were able to build it thanks to the awesomeness of OpenStreetMap and Geonames. Compared to Google Places, it is highly customizable and can be enriched with additional data sources.
Check out the blog post (https://blog.algolia.com/introdu...) or directly try it for yourself!

@evanlodge@dessaigne Our current focus is all about UX: we want Algolia Places to be easily extended and customizable to be deeply integrated in your apps.
For instance. you can mix your own data & Places' suggestions in a single dropdown menu: https://community.algolia.com/pl...
You can also use it to auto-fill your boring forms: https://community.algolia.com/pl...
The underlying data is not yet at the level of what Google provides, but we're leveraging the progress that OpenStreetMap & GeoNames are making every day!

This is amazing. I remember building an ad-hoc service in 2011 by patching multiple libraries and APIs, and it took us weeks to get it right.
This is so useful to reduce friction in shopping carts or signup forms!